Traveling-bag.



M. PROSTERMAN.

TRAVELING BAG.

APPLICATION TILED MAY31, 1913.

1,126,860. Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX PBOSTERMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TRAVELING-BAG.

Application filed May 31, 1913.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, MAX Pnos'rnRMAN, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Traveling-Bags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

This invention has for its object to provide an improved leather traveling bag or similar device such as a hand bag, purse and the like.

The invention relates more particularly to certain details of construction hereinafter fully described and particularly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention Figure 1- is a perspective view of a bag constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2- is a fragmentary detail sectional view through the jaw members of the metallic frame at the mouth of the bag showing the manner of covering the frame and attaching the material of the bag body thereto in accordance with my invention.

In leather traveling bags, hand bags and the like, as heretofore made, the mouth portion of the bag has been fitted with a jaw frame consisting of two inverted U-shaped members, each of which is secured by stitching, riveting or the like to one side of the mouth portion of the bag. This frame is either enameled in a color to match the color of the leather of the bag-body or the same is covered with thin leather cemented thereto. The method of securing the mouth portion of the bag-body to such frame or the respective jaws thereof has, however, been the same whether the frame is covered with leather or merely enameled, that is to say, the edge of the mouth portion of the bag is secured to the frame by means of stitching penetrating the leather of the bag body and passing,

through perforations in the frame, or rivets are employed in place of said stitching.

The use of the enameled and of the leather covered frame, which is usually made by a manufacturer of trunk makers hardware and delivered complete and ready for use. has been found objectionable for the reason that it very seldom happens that the color of the enamel or the color of the leather covering of the frame match the Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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stock used in constructing the bag body. It has, therefore, been very difficult for the bag manufacturer to match the color of the frame in selecting his leather for the bag body.

The object of the present invention is to provide a leather bag so constructed that the leather covering of the metal frame is identical with the stock used in the construction of the bag body and in which, furthermore, the connection between the metal frame and the bag body may be effected by machine sewing so as to provide a neater appearance and also greater strength and durability in the bag.

In the accompanying drawings, in which I have illustrated several embodiments of the invention, there is shown, in Fig. 2-, a cross-sectional view of the metallic jaw frame mounted in the mouth of the bag.

This frame, which is commonly used and well-known in the art, consists of two opposed angle iron members, 1 and 2 respectively, which are suitably hinged together at 3 in the usual and. well-known manner. The member or jaw 2 is of smaller dimensions than. the jaw 1, and, when the frame is closed, as in closing the .bag, the face flange of the member 2 fits within the face Flange of the member 1 and the inwardly extending flanges of said members are disposed parallel with each other.

The member 1 usually carries locking devices 4 and which engage in suitable openings in the member 2 in a well-known manner not herein illustrated. The said locking devices are usually secured to the member 1 by means of rivets and are disposed upon the leather covering thereof when the latter is employed.

In carrying out my invention I employ the frame consisting of the members 1 and 2. which may be enameled or unfinished, and cover both the same with leather of the same color and texture as the bag body 6, such leather covering being preferably extended over all surfaces of each member and secured by cementing the same to said surfaces or otherwise suitably securing the same. These coverings 10 and 11 are so ap plied that the portions thereof covering the face flanges of said members extend beyond the elbows of said members and provide flanges 12 along the latter. To these flanges the edge portion 13 of the mouth portion of the bag body is secured by stitching 14 so 'made as to be invisible from the exterior folded and unfolded at its juncture with the bag to the same extent as in existing modes of fastening the bag body to the frame members, but this motion is taken up at the juncture between the frame covering and bagbody which is yielding and accommodates itself to this motion so that the leather does not tend to break at this point, thereby greatly increasing the life of the bag.

I claim as my invention:

In a leather bag, a bag-body having a mouth frame comjcirising two jaw members, each. jaw member composed of a single U- shaped frame of angle steel, a web of one of the said frames disposed parallel to and overlapping a web of the other of said. frames, the other web of each frame eX- tending inwardly of the said bag; the said two jaw members pivotally secured together at the ends of their arms; a leather covering for each jaw member cemented thereupon and providing a free flange or lip extending outwardly from the outer surface of the face flange along the elbow of said member, the mouth of the bag body joined to said flange or liD by a line of stitching passing through said parts, said flange or lip and the edge portion of the bagmouth turned inwardly and the outer surfaces lying in contact with each other whereby the stitching connecting the same is rendered invisible from the exterior of the bag.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in. presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, MAX PROSTERMILN.

Witnesses R. W. LoTz, M. M. BoYLE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner ofifatents,

Washington, D. G. 

